updated Thu. March 15, 2018

This was not an opinion that I expected to hear from a panel discussing the ethics of interview-based research in sociology. The panel was organised as part of a recent conference held in St Petersburg, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the St Petersburg Association of Sociologists. There was, of course,ÃÂ ...

The 67-year-old sociologist is a leader in what's known as "masculinities studies," and an in-demand purveyor of insight on why men are the way they are. The field he helped develop has long had men's misdeeds as an area of focus, but it's gained newfound exposure and relevance with #MeToo andÃÂ ...

Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci wrote in an essay published in The New York Times on March 10 about experiments she performed on YouTube during the 2016 election, where she noticed that no matter what kind of political content she searched for, the recommended videos were always more extreme andÃÂ ...

The US-educated, Franco-Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz has established a reputation as the sociologist of love, sex and power. Her book, Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism, .... French society is still shaped by those courtly institutions. Sociologists know that most behaviours trickle down.".

Robert Wuthnow, a sociologist at Princeton University, spent eight years interviewing Americans in small towns across the country. He had one goal: to understand why rural America is so angry with Washington. Wuthnow's work resulted in a new book, The Left Behind: Decline and Rage in Rural America.

Amid the new calls to stop violence against women in India, Deepa Narayan, a sociologist based in Delhi, kept turning one question over and over in her head -- how did Indian society come to accept this treatment of women? "What is it about our culture that leads to such violence against women and thisÃÂ ...

As the sociologist for the dating app Tinder, and now Bumble, she offers an unparalleled look at relationships, technology and decision-making. Her television appearances include ABC's Good Morning America, 20/20 and Nightline, as well as The Doctors, CNN, HuffPost Live and Pivot's Take Part Live.

Sociologist Yu Xie is the director of Princeton's Paul and Marcia Wythes Center on Contemporary China, which aims to conduct research on Chinese society through an interdisciplinary approach. Known for the statistical rigor he brings to sociology, Xie, the Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor ofÃÂ ...

In a new study that capitalizes on data from the National Center for Educational Statistics and methods that address causality, Cornell sociologists looked at an earlier portion of the pipeline -- in high school, when students' commitment to STEM fields tends to solidify. They are the first to analyze the efficacyÃÂ ...

In 1905, German sociologist Max Weber wrote a warm letter to W.E.B Du Bois, offering praise for the American sociologist's landmark book of essays, "The Souls of Black Folk." He even insisted it be translated into German. The missive was one of five Weber wrote, between 1904 and 1905, to Du Bois, oneÃÂ ...

Berkeley-based sociologist and writer Arlie Hochschild has spent much of her career looking at the chasms in America that divide people of different incomes, races and political beliefs. But for her next project, she's looking at programs that bridge those gaps. And she's starting in Kentucky. "I've spent theÃÂ ...

OXFORD, Miss. - A University of Mississippisociologist is the keynote speaker for W.E.B. Du Bois Day, a celebration of the 150th anniversary of Du Bois' birth, Friday (March 2) at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. James M. Thomas, assistant professor of sociology, will discuss "The Souls of JewsÃÂ ...

However, paradoxically, though Oommen, having been immersed during all his nearly 50 years in teaching and researching sociology, at the end, censures and slams his fraternity of the Indian sociologists as "professionals without professionalism". Moreover, as a reputed professional sociologist himself,ÃÂ ...

By the year 2060, the number of Americans over age 65 is expected to double, to 24 percent of the population, intensifying concerns about end-of-life care. In a Feb. 23 talk, sociologists Holly Prigerson and Libby Luth will speak on "Psychosocial Influences on End-of-Life Care: Leveraging and ApplicationÃÂ ...

The American opioidepidemic has defied all efforts to contain it, and the number of overdose deaths continues to grow. President Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency in October and said "we have to do something about it" inÃÂ ...

Students gathered in Strong Hall Monday evening to hear Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), speak on interfaith leadership at UT. Hoping to connect his talk to recent campus events surrounding race and other aspects of identity, Patel elected to trace the history of American identity from itsÃÂ ...

Sociologists' observations about society and how its influences affect us generates important information used to help us relate to one another, whether as ... Dr. Carolyn Paul, a Sociologist and faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), said that sociology is a field of study not wellÃÂ ...

Considering the number of baby boomers entering their senior years, the country needs more such institutions, sociologist, educator and author Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot told an audience Tuesday at the Four Arts. According to population studies, 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day. "We are healthierÃÂ ...

The Malta Law Academy, a Foundation of the Malta Chamber of Advocates, jointly with the Department of Commercial Law at the University of Malta will again this year commemorate World Consumers' Day with its annual Consumer Law conference. As in previous editions, Dr David Fabri, head of theÃÂ ...

Paula El Khoury is a research associate at the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques in the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, in Paris. She has more than 20 years of experience as journalist and sociologist, during which she was involved in popularizing the social sciences in herÃÂ ...

Sofia. The Bulgarian society clearly shows that it is against the Istanbul Convention, sociologist Kancho Stoychev told FOCUS Radio this morning in regard to the latest surveys by his polling agency Gallup International, not related to Gallup Inc. "The registered nearly 60% of people who are against (theÃÂ ...

The American opioidepidemic has defied all efforts to contain it, and the number of overdose deaths continues to grow. President Trump directed the Department of Health and Human Services to declare the opioid crisis a public health emergency in October and said "we have to do something about it" inÃÂ ...

students gathered in Strong Hall Monday evening to hear Eboo Patel, founder of Interfaith youth Core (IFYC), speak on interfaith leadership at UT. Hoping to connect his talk to recent campus events surrounding race and other aspects of identity, Patel elected to trace the history of American identity from itsÃÂ ...

sociologist Rachel Sherman, who is an associate Professor of sociology at the New school for Social Research at Eugene Lang College, came to F&M this past Monday to present her research on the wealthy people of America. She also published her findings in her new book--Uneasy Street: The AnxietyÃÂ ...

students from a country or a university perceived as less academically prestigious may have fewer opportunities to study abroad, a team of sociologists have found. Applicants from Yale University received the highest share of positive responses. Photo: 12019/PixabayÃÂ ...

However, while some online reactions to such proposals have continued to label the ladies concerned as desperate, sociologists have different opinions. A sociologist, Mr. Monday Ahibogwu, said it was normal for culture and tradition to evolve. According to him, this explains why the idea of a womanÃÂ ...

Dr. Carolyn Paul, a sociologist and faculty member at Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), said that sociology is a field of study not well understood and often ... The observations made by sociologists contribute to many fields, including social services, criminal justice, journalism and even politics.

Such unique way of life practised by the people in Sarawak, he said, had amazed the sociologists. "They (the sociologist) look at Sarawak as a model of harmony and they even acknowledged that mixed marriages have enabled peace and harmony to thrive in the state." On another matter, he supported theÃÂ ...

On election night in the U.S. in 2016, Jerry Flores had offers from three universities in front of him. With Donald Trump as the new president, Flores, a child of Mexican immigrants who grew up in Pasadena, Calif., could not bear listening to Trump put down his parents' homeland for the next four years as heÃÂ ...

In one of the only studies that looks at the effects of sexual harassment over time, the sociologists asked about 1,000 men and women if they had experienced unwanted touching, offensive jokes and other behaviors that could be considered workplace harassment. Among the female respondents who saidÃÂ ...

Peter J. Marina is a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. But after a summer spent doing research for his book Down and Out in New Orleans, his resume now includes time as a bartender, a street poet and a mime. Marina, who grew up eating Bunny Bread and mayonnaise sandwiches as aÃÂ ...

The 79-year old sociologist was received on Tuesday as a rock star in the packed auditorium at Tel Aviv University. Around 600 people turned up to hear him, but soon it transpired - not everyone was happy. Ibrahim was in Israel to participate in a two-day academic conference about Egyptian society, withÃÂ ...

There's another goal to this class and the new program in general: to help students build cultural competence, said Lynn Hampton, a sociologist in the honors college who teaches the intro course. "A lot of them are coming from high schools that are homogenous - racially, economically, culturally,ÃÂ ...

The "happily ever after" endings of classic Disney movies aren't as idyllic as they seemed. At least, that's what Kazue Muta, a Professor of sociology at Osaka University in Japan, argued on social media last month and again for Japan's women's Action Network (WAN) on December 31. "Come to think of it,ÃÂ ...

Citing a Harvard Universitysociologist during a speech on the House floor, he said, "societal collapse was always brought about following an advent of the deterioration of marriage and family." In 2007, Pence spoke against a bill that would protect gays and lesbians from discrimination in the workplace.

Cape Town - Artist Walter Meyer will be remembered for painting the demise of the Afrikaner nationalism, a sociology professor and artist said on Friday. "Where [Jacobus] Pierneef painted the rise of Afrikaner nationalism, Walter painted the demise of it," Professor Andries Bezuidenhout told News24,ÃÂ ...

The second option, according to the sociologist, is quite possible. She called it "retreat and violence (a very bad one)." The prospect of upcoming elections and the lack of guarantees of retaining power can lead to a temptation to solve some issues by force. And making peace with corruption logically meansÃÂ ...

Zelditch was chairman of the Department of sociology twice, and he was part of a group of sociologists Stanford hired around the same time who transformed the department, placing greater emphasis on developing rigorous, testable theories and methodologies. Despite retiring in 1996, Zelditch continuedÃÂ ...

At a time when many companies are feeling pressured to report on and eliminate gender inequality within the workforce, a Stanford sociologist is finding success with a new ... Stanford sociologist Shelley Correll and her team have found promising methods for reducing gender inequalities in the workplace.

Matt Salganik, a sociologist at Princeton, is trying to solve that hard problem. He wants to know how human beings behave and why, especially in a socially mediated world. To do it, Salganik has become a hardcore data nerd. The digital traces everyone now leaves on servers provide inexhaustible fuel forÃÂ ...

To prepare the report, Economists and sociologists researched the effect of technology on disempowered groups. Lawyers considered the future of privacy and justice. Doctors and psychologists examined impacts on physical and mental health. philosophers unpacked hidden biases and moral questions.

The term virtuoso comes to us from music or athletics or other endeavors, where a person, through practice and commitment, aspires to be greater than the average performer. Max Weber [a sociologist of the 19th and early 20th centuries] observed that a lot of creativity in religion was driven by people whoÃÂ ...

Alberta conviction will not dissuade pedophile-hunting groups, says sociologist ... The conviction of a Red Deer man for wrongfully targeting an innocent person in a Creep Catchers sting will not dissuade online vigilantes from hunting pedophiles, says a sociologist. Some of these predator-hunters areÃÂ ...

The sociologist, did, however point out that globalisation had opened a multitude of employment opportunities. Quoting from the Preamble to the Constitution, Indira said, "In 'We, the people of India', we stands for a diverse country. It symbolizes a plural society. We need to question if globalisation hasÃÂ ...

sociologist and author Charles Derber thinks he knows why. The American left, he says, fails to understand a crucial aspect of capitalism: how it intersects with race, class and gender. Derber posits this argument during a new interview with Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. "The intersectionality--and IÃÂ ...